To Live as a Lotus among the Flames …

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" To Live as a Lotus among the Flames … "
Deane Curtin

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1086060
Doc. No	:	LA129689
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15685357-02101003‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Deane Curtin
Title & Author	:	To Live as a Lotus among the Flames … [Article]\ Deane Curtin
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology
Date	:	2017
Volume/ Issue Number	:	21/1
Page No	:	21–40
Abstract	:	Śāntideva’s (fl. 8th c) most celebrated work, the Bodhi-caryāvatāra (A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life) provides practical, contemporary insight into the climate crisis. His spiritual practice—the practice of the bodhisattva as nurse for the human condition—encourages reframing delusion into understanding. It thus reveals the antidotes to the causes of the climate crisis, such as greed and anger. Above all, the “wicked” nature of the climate crisis is an opportunity for a new world to emerge. If we look honestly at the changing planet it will reflect back to us the truth of who we are. Śāntideva’s (fl. 8th c) most celebrated work, the Bodhi-caryāvatāra (A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life) provides practical, contemporary insight into the climate crisis. His spiritual practice—the practice of the bodhisattva as nurse for the human condition—encourages reframing delusion into understanding. It thus reveals the antidotes to the causes of the climate crisis, such as greed and anger. Above all, the “wicked” nature of the climate crisis is an opportunity for a new world to emerge. If we look honestly at the changing planet it will reflect back to us the truth of who we are.
Descriptor	:	Buddhism
Descriptor	:	climate change
Descriptor	:	environmental ethics
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15685357-02101003‬